Study of the wideband behavior of an in-plane electromagnetic MEMS energy harvester

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 829-832

  Liu, Huicong ^a   Qian, You ^a   Wang, Nan ^a   Lee, Chengkuo ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY HARVESTER; HARDENING EFFECTS; NONLINEAR SUSPENSIONS; OPERATING BANDWIDTH; RESONANCE SHIFT; WIDE-BAND; WIDEBAND BEHAVIOR;

BANDWIDTH; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ENERGY HARVESTING; VEHICLE SUSPENSIONS;

MEMS;

EID: 84875448997     PISSN: 10846999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MEMSYS.2013.6474371     Document Type: Conference Paper

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